wild celery

American  

noun

1. tape grass.

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wild celery British  

noun

1. Archaic name: smallage.  a strongly scented umbelliferous plant, Apium graveolens, of temperate regions: the ancestor of cultivated celery

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Etymology

Origin of wild celery

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

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wild celery

The project involved scouting the animals with the help of trackers, watching and waiting for them to finish eating and leave, and retrieving the discarded wild celery stalks.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2023

Anti-pollution laws and government-funded cleanups made nearby rivers more hospitable to sturgeon, whitefish, beavers and native plants, such as wild celery.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022

In the damp uplands of the Belgian Congo a glowering male gorilla beats his breast, while the female leans placidly against a tree, watching her baby eat wild celery.

From Time Magazine Archive

In many places we found plenty of wild celery, and a variety of plants, which probably would be of great benefit to seamen after a long voyage.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

We found in this, as in almost every Fuegian harbour, abundance of muscles, limpets, and wild celery; some fish and some wild-fowl.

From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert